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CES 2013 Live Blog: Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam's Keynote

Lowell McAdam is about to take to the stage at the Venetian Hotel’s Palazzo Ballroom in Las Vegas, kicking off the first day’s keynote for CES 2013. Here’s what he has to say about the future of mobile wireless technology and the wider tech industry:

- We’re being shown a video about the “world’s biggest challenges,” including caring for the elderly and making video calls. Video is now 50% of all mobile traffic.

- MacAdam takes to the stage.

- The search for the next big thing defines the technology industry. When Verizon launched 4G LTE at CES 2011 the average speed of wireless networks was less than 1 mb a second. Mobile video and cloud services were in their infancy, machine-to-machine was more of an idea.

- This past year Verizon introduced FiOS Quantum, offering 300 megabytes per second. “We have platform in place to eventually deliver 1 gigabyte speeds to the home.”

- Verizon moving into the cloud through its acquisition of Terremark. “Cloud computing is the third wave of the digital revolution.”

- Looking forward – tablets will outsell PCs this year. By 2015 10% of the digital universe will be housed in the cloud.

- By 2020, the “internet of things” will represent 30 billion connected things – including appliances and electronics.

- We’re talking about video on mobile. Over half of all mobile traffic this year will be video . Next set of tools will take ability to customize content to a whole new level.

- McAdam shows a video demonstration about Goldeni, a service that allows firefighters to look at a schematic of a burning building on an iPad, and see where other firefighters are in the building. They appear as glowing dots on the map.

- Now “the most powerful man in sports” is about to take to the stage – it’s Roger Goodell, commissioner of the NFL.

- Goodell, dressed in a dark blue suit and open-neck shirt, talks about how the NFL is always finding ways to innovate. He points to the varied platforms on which you can connect to what is happening in the game: using FiOS to watch live games on smartphones, mobile apps track player stats, or mobile services used by athletes to monitor their health off the field and safety on it.

- Goodell wants to see more interaction with fans in the stadium through mobile services. Asked what his “wish list” is, Goodell would like to see better monitoring of players in the field, better interaction with fans in the stadium.

- McAdam asks how Goodell is reaching fans in other countries: “Tech is a great frontier,” says Goodell. “We no longer have to go through a broadcast partner in a particular region who might not appreciate our content as much.” The NFL will have two games in Lodon this year. “We could have an NFL franchise in London [eventually].” Goodell adds he’s been wandering the floor of CES 2013.

- Goodell leaves the stage and McAdam talks about building the foundation of a connected environment, and how tech companies can use that to solve “big social challenges like energy conservation.”

- There’s another piece to this seamless digital experience: the car. The number of connected cars in the world is expected to quadruple between now and 2016. We’ll be able to integrate a car with social and social .

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